It looks like this walking and cycling route will come with a prestigious office development, an important Roman site and a transport interchange.

I have a feeling there’s a deep agenda in pedestrianising Walbrook in this way.

Commuters arriving in the City at Cannon Street station or the Waterloo and City Line will be able to come out of the stations onto the spacious thoroughfare of Walbrook , from where they could walk to their place of work. A pedestrianised Bank Junction would give a traffic free route for commuters to the East side of the junction.

Could we see other routes around Bank Junction also given over to pedestrians and cyclists? Roads like.

Cannon |Street

Cornhill

Dowgate Hill

King William Street

Lombard Street

Lothbury

Old Jewry

Prince’s Street

St. Swithin’s Lane

and a few others, must all be being considered for full or partial pedestrianisation.

The station is a fairly simple affair, with unusually tunnels at both ends of the station. According to Wikipedia, this means that the number of carriages that have access to the platforms is restricted.

This oogle Map shows the station, with the tunnel portals clearly visible.

Although, the bridge across the tracks is not step-free, it has an unusually low number of steps on each side.

As the main Hasting station is new and step-free, I suspect this station will not be updated for step-free access, unless a developer had a plan to create a new station and make a lot of money with perhaps an appropriate over-site development.

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But it will be about how I’m coping with the loss of my wife and son to cancer in recent years and how I manage with being a coeliac and recovering from a stroke. It will be about travel, sport, engineering, food, art, computers, large projects and London, that are some of the passions that fill my life.

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